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AS I walk these broad, majestic days of peace,(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrificIdeal!Against vast odds, having..

BY the bivouac's fitful flame,A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow;--but firstI note,The tents of the sleeping army, the fields'..

FAR hence, amid an isle of wondrous beauty,Crouching over a grave, an ancient, sorrowful mother,Once a queen--now lean and tatter'd, seated on the..

HOW solemn, as one by one,As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty--as the men file by whereI stand;As the faces, the masks appear--as I glance at..

AMERICA always!Always our own feuillage!Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta ofLouisiana! Always the cotton-fields of Alabama..

GREAT are the myths--I too delight in them;Great are Adam and Eve--I too look back and accept them;Great the risen and fallen nations, and their..

AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats!Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me!(For what is my life, or any man's life, but a conflict with..

Come, said my soul,Such verses for my body let us write, (For we are One),That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other..

AS the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud,A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me.I shall go forth,I shall traverse The States awhile--but I..

AS if a phantom caress'd me,I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore;But the one I thought was with me, as now I walk by the..

AT the last, tenderly,From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house,From the clasp of the knitted locks--from the keep of the well-closeddoors,Let..

AS Adam, early in the morning,Walking forth from the bower, refresh'd with sleep;Behold me where I pass--hear my voice--approach,Touch me--touch the..

THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning--yet long untaughtI did not hear;But now the chorus I hear, and am elated;A tenor, strong..

WHAT ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfectpilot needs?Here, sailor!..

Again a verse for sake of you,You soldiers in the ranks- you Volunteers,Who bravely fighting, silent fell,To fill unmention'd graves.ASHES of..

Tears! tears! tears!In the night, in solitude, tears;On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand;Tears--not a star shining--all dark..

THOUGHT of the Infinite--the All!Be thou my God.Lover Divine, and Perfect Comrade!Waiting, content, invisible yet, but certain,Be thou my..

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.She owns..

THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood,chattering, chaffering;How often I find myself standing and looking at it where..

FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,The ones known, and the ones unknown--the ones on the stars,The stars themselves, some shaped..

1As I ebb'd with the ocean of life,As I wended the shores I know,As I walk'd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,Where they rustle up..

FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face;Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also faceto face.Crowds of men and women..

AS I ponder'd in silence,Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful aspect,Terrible in beauty..

SO far, and so far, and on toward the end,Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresistible impulses ofme;But whether I continue beyond this..

I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past formyself, and for these chants--and now I have found it;It is not in those paged..